The language in Star Trek, from TOS forward.
Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x04 - "No Win Scenario"
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Odo’s appeared a bit bigger as well.
It’s almost like we don’t know how exactly they’ll talk in 400 years.
You know, you might be on to something there...
Shaw: But I didn't say dips--- from Chicago, I said a kid from Chicago! Ok, what f---er set the universal translator to early 21st century Millennial?
Mura: See, you said it again. You called the translator saboteur a ---
Shaw: No I didn't, it was the trans... forget it, just fix the ---- translator.
Mura: I'll assume that ----ing order was also translated 21st century style.
(meanwhile back on the Shrike)
Vadic's boss: So, did the Changeling sabotage their translator as I ordered?
Vadic: I believe so, but I don't see how adding profanity every other line to their translator would help us.
Vadic's boss: If Starfleet is like Earth's 21st century internet forums, they'll spend countless hours arguing about it and doing little else.
Mura: See, you said it again. You called the translator saboteur a ---
Shaw: No I didn't, it was the trans... forget it, just fix the ---- translator.
Mura: I'll assume that ----ing order was also translated 21st century style.
(meanwhile back on the Shrike)
Vadic's boss: So, did the Changeling sabotage their translator as I ordered?
Vadic: I believe so, but I don't see how adding profanity every other line to their translator would help us.
Vadic's boss: If Starfleet is like Earth's 21st century internet forums, they'll spend countless hours arguing about it and doing little else.
I had no issue with the swearing by Picard. It emphasized just how uncomfortable and onerous that trip must have been in the shuttle.
"No, Ma'am, no dipshit."
More people need to re-watch the TOS Movies. They're relying too heavily on their faded memories. The same goes for TNG.
I re-watched every episode of TNG (and key Seven episodes of VOY) before PIC Season 1 and re-watched every TOS Movie before PIC Season 3, to avoid having the hazy rose-tinted half-remembered perspective so many seem to have.
I re-watched every episode of TNG (and key Seven episodes of VOY) before PIC Season 1 and re-watched every TOS Movie before PIC Season 3, to avoid having the hazy rose-tinted half-remembered perspective so many seem to have.
If I were writing the tech manual, I'd make up something about how the way technologies are combined and used in the holodeck, replicating and unreplicating, force-fields popping up as-needed, variable projections, all mean that it needs a specialized power system that, say, discharges and recharges very quickly, and isn't useful for most applications on a starship.
That's what they do in "The Expanse." Partially for safety of the crew so they each have their own life-support, partially because depressurizing the ship is safer overall (smothers potential fires, air blowing out of breaches would push the ship off course). Of course, it's a little late to introduce that kind of hard-science dramatic concept to Star Trek, at least until we do a ground-up remake on the premise of "What if the original Star Trek concept was being made today, based on today's predictions of the future and contemporary social issues"? Krutzman, call me.
I think the vaguely old-guy connotation of "dipshit" works in context. Shaw is not a happening guy who's going to be using the latest swears. I felt similarly about 22nd century man Balthazar Edison having such an incredibly old-timey name to underscore that he was from the prior century from the perspective of Kirk and crew in BEY.
Speaking of which, I finally have a reason to re-watch key Dominion episodes DS9. I've watched next to none of that series in 15 years.
It's time you caught up!
I've been watching it this past week. It's aged very well indeed.How dated is dated? Because I still hear it in real life occasionally.
I probably say it once or twice a week (mostly at drivers who do stupid things—I do a lot of driving because my work commute is 200 miles/320kms round trip several times a week). But then, I’m a 55 year old white guy…whaddo I know from cool?
Twice a week from teens for me.
I USE dipshit on a recurring basis in my conversations. 
Like teens know what's current. Middle age Trek fans are where it's at.
The Buena Vista book/record set:
"Klingon monster, you killed my son."
Phrases can come back into fashion, and they can also be localised. I remember "groovy" being used often in "The Brady Bunch" - and, about ten years later, maybe due to TV reruns(?), the term seem to turn up again in Aussie school playgrounds.
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This is my list:It's time you caught up!
"The Jem'Hadar"
"The Search, Part I"
"The Search, Part II"
"Improbable Cause"
"The Die Is Cast"
"The Adversary"
"The Way of the Warrior"
"Homefront"
"Paradise Lost"
"To the Death"
"The Quickening"
"Broken Link"
"Apocalypse Now"
"The Begotten"
"In Purgatory's Shadow"
"By Inferno's Light"
"Call to Arms"
"A Time to Stand"
"Rocks and Shoals"
"Sons and Daughters"
"Behind the Lines"
"Favor the Bold"
"Sacrifice of Angels"
"Statistical Probabilities"
"Inquisition"
"In the Pale Moonlight"
"Tears of the Prophets"
"Image in the Sand"
"Shadows and Symbols"
"Treachery, Faith, and the Great River"
"Chimera"
"Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges"
"Penumbra"
"Til Death Do Us Part"
"Strange Bedfellows"
"The Changing Face of Evil"
"When It Rains..."
"Tacking Into the Wind"
"Extreme Measures"
"The Dogs of War"
"What You Leave Behind"
I'm not adding any more than that.
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I know you aren't adding more, but why skip "A Time to Stand"?
